[QUOTE=Kondor;42534485]hopefully that will be a separate mode because fuck meta enforcement[/QUOTE]
[quote]Riot Lyte
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Hello Summoners!
Lyte here, and in this post I’m excited to talk with you about Team Builder, a new feature coming to PBE in the near future where you can queue up for a specific role, champion and position and get connected with four teammates that also preselected their preferred role. The goal is to build a balanced team where everyone’s in agreement on where they’re going and what they’re playing, and in doing so help lay the foundation for good teamwork.
How often have you logged on to League of Legends and thought, “I just want to play Renekton today.” Or maybe you want to try a new strategy but can’t find four friends to premade with. We’re always asking how we can make the League of Legends experience better, and one thing that comes up a lot is how players want to feel like they’re in control of their pre-game experience.
Good teamwork doesn’t just start when the minions spawn or at the first big teamfight. It starts in champion select. Champion select sets the tone of the game and greatly impacts whether you feel like you’re going to have a fun match. So we asked ourselves: what’s the ideal champion select? And how can we improve this process so it happens more often?
An ideal champ select is one where all five players get their preferred role and feel like they’re all on the same page for the upcoming match. The current matchmaking does a good job of matching up players of similar overall skill levels, but doesn’t have any way to know what a player’s intentions for a given game are. Sometimes things work out perfectly and everyone gets the champion and role they wanted without a hitch. But if multiple players are looking to play the same role or lane, a consensus has to be built in a relatively short period of time. That’s time that could be used to get to know each other, agree on a strategy and build confidence that it’s going to be a fun match.
Team Builder is intended to bring players together that complement each other’s expectations and intentions from the moment they enter the lobby. When everyone’s aligned on who will be going where and playing what, the only thing left to figure out is how to dominate the opposition.
Once we had a model for how Team Builder would bring players together, we started looking at matchmaking and how we could evolve it to help further enable good games. One of the most important things for a team’s enjoyment is making sure that they’re matched against similarly skilled players.
With Team Builder we’ll also be rolling out a smarter matchmaking system that can dynamically account for your experience with a given role, position or champion. First time playing Ahri? Learning how to be a solid Marksman? Venturing into the jungle for the first time? Team Builder’s matchmaking will take all of these factors into account. .
Our goal for Team Builder is to bring players together and build better teams. Because good teams win more games, make bigger plays, and most importantly, have more fun.
To us, that’s exciting, and we’re looking forward to your feedback. See you in Team Builder,
Lyte
Update!
Commonly Asked Questions:
1) Won't this enforce the meta?
a) Team Builder is all about introducing a new, cooperative Champion Select where players can agree to a strategy and team vision before entering a match. Players in Team Builder will be able to outline a strategy they are interested in playing, and the system will find teammates that share that vision. Feel like playing a double jungler strategy or want to send 5 players down the mid-lane? No problem. It might take longer to find 4 other players willing to try a crazy strategy but when you do, you'll know the entire team is bought in and you're going to have fun.
2) Will Team Builder replace other queues?
a) Initially, Team Builder will be an entirely separate queue. We're looking forward to feedback from players and will use that feedback to determine whether this type of Champion Select is a good fit for modes like Ranked Mode but for now, we're focused on improving the Champion Select experience as an independent queue experiment.
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[QUOTE=MrFlashcat;42534464]ahri or fizz didn't get buffed afaik and suddenly they're number 1 pick in soloq
what's wrong with people suddenly discovering the strengths of a champion?[/QUOTE]
ahri and fizz has always been strong
what exactly made garen so strong all of a sudden
[QUOTE=Kondor;42534485]hopefully that will be a separate mode because fuck meta enforcement[/QUOTE]
They say the captain can set the "meta" to whatever he wants. 2 mids, 2 junglers, whatever he wants. But from what I understand, everyone has to be searching for that meta to find that team lobby. I only skimmed, so I might have got some of it wrong. and then ninja'd with the straight quote. Oh well.
that's pretty cool
"looking for 5 junglers"
[QUOTE=MrFlashcat;42534464]ahri or fizz didn't get buffed afaik and suddenly they're number 1 pick in soloq
what's wrong with people suddenly discovering the strengths of a champion?[/QUOTE]
There are a lot of champs that don't get picked either because a current popular pick counters them or because another champ does what they do but better. When someone gets nerfed it could make it better to pick others. If you look into when they "suddenly" started getting popular again it was probably around the time someone that counters them was nerfed.
[QUOTE=MrFlashcat;42534464]ahri or fizz didn't get buffed afaik and suddenly they're number 1 pick in soloq
what's wrong with people suddenly discovering the strengths of a champion?[/QUOTE]
ryze got nerfed and he shat on both of them
[QUOTE=Louis;42534022]but did you get a penta booster???[/QUOTE]
No ;_;
[QUOTE=kenji;42534465]not sure if posted but
[img]http://riot-web-static.s3.amazonaws.com/images/news/October_2013/TBDP/EN_thumb.jpg[/img]
Fuck yes.[/QUOTE]
I'm so looking forward to this especially for normals as it's really hard to know if your team wants to go meta picks or 2 top and 2 bot and 1 mid picks at Level 30. :v:
Maybe now I can actually play mid sometimes instead of being forced to support. Maybe..
lets hope i can queue for feeder
do i buy sultan gp and complete my GP master race skin collection even though GP is near to useless...
fucking riot.
*buys RP*
getting elise for free was my only motivation for getting to gold, but now i think it'll be funny to pass up my friend who has been playing for like a year longer than me :^) cya nerd
oh man that vi skin
also they fixed tryndomer again :(
they should add a police siren noise to vi's q charge up
they probably will, she has police sirens on her back
and make the lights on her fists flash blue/red
zinayzen u cunt
fuck your automerge
dear god what have i done
that vi skins is fucking awesome holy shit. better than neon strike
[QUOTE=Bathtub;42535162]that vi skins is fucking awesome holy shit. better than neon strike[/QUOTE]
not difficult to do, neon strike is kind of lame
neon strike is ugly as hell imo
doesnt really count since cutting myself was better than neon strike vi
[editline]15th October 2013[/editline]
3 neon strike vi hate posts in a row aw yus
boobcop vi looks cool I guess
Was on a huge win streak when I got to my promo, won 1 game, lost the 2 next. HORRRRRRRRRRIBLE teammates, these are the kind of guys I despise being with :(.
And the enemy Fiddle was a total dick to our support, "THIS TOWER IS FOR YOU JANNA" like he had never won. also fucking fiddle fear sucks dick too.
Daddy issues Vi and Caitlynn
quite frankly we need more cop skins
jinx would make a cool one but it'd totally clash with her personality
muh lore
i like that neon strike vi can wear her glasses and take them off its like you have them up for most of the time then you just go all man mode time and put on the glasses to fuck shit up
it would be pretty cool if they did more with that sort of thing
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